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Thursday, November 4, 2010

The Predators Have Their First Losing Record of the Year, Game Round-Up, and Thursday Thoughts

What started out as a promising season is now not looking so slick for the Nashville Predators as they lost their third game in a row, dropping their record to a sub .500 5-3-3. The three "loser points" tend to exaggerate the overall look of the record, but the bottom line is that have lost more than they have won.

Pekka Rinne had what was probably his worst game this season. On a better night, he possibly could have corralled all four Phoenix goals, certainly at least a couple. That is the fine margin of error that this Predator team will live and die with this season.

Pekka's positioning was questionable at times and he wandered completely away from the crease on at least three occasions in the third period and was lucky that no one scored.

Phoenix had similar issues last night as Ilya Bryzgalov was not sharp either, but he allowed one less goal and got a few breaks along the way which is how these two teams win games.

Both Phoenix and Nashville are teams that should make the playoffs but it appears that both need to right their ships and play according to their abilities. Last night's game could act as a springboard for Phoenix because they finally have all their players healed and on the ice for the first time this season.

The Predators need to put their second three-game losing streak behind them and return with a win against the leagues best team, so far, the Los Angeles Kings on Saturday. They have had good success at the Staples Center, but this year's version of the Kings is better than any they have seen recently.

Hopefully, Marcel Goc's painful look at the end of the second period will not translate into a return to the injured list and he will be ready for the back to back games against the Kings and Ducks this weekend.

It may be time for Captain Shea to say a few words to the team and explain that last night's play was not acceptable to him, the coaches, or the fans.

Dirk Hoag has one of the best suggestions I've heard on how to jump start the Predators' power play unit. With the big news of the Titan's Randy Moss signing, Dirk is conducting a poll as to who is Nashville's biggest signing in their short pro sports history.

Carlo Colaiacovo has been placed on Injured Reserve as a result of Jordin Tootoo's clean hit last Thursday. It appears that Tootoo was injured on the same play since he sat out on Saturday against the Wings.

The NHL injury list keeps on going. Earlier this week, Dion Phaneuf was booed by fans. Now he suffered a deep cut that required surgery and Brian Burke says will be out for four weeks.

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